pine needle

English

Noun

pine needle (plural pine needles)

1. An adult leaf of an adult pine tree.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 148:

     These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.

Synonyms

• (leaf): needle

Translations

leaf of a pine tree

• Bashkir: ылыҫ (ılıś)
• Catalan: pinassa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 松針／松针 (zh) (sōngzhēn)

• Faroese: furunál f
• Finnish: männynneulanen
• Galician: lesta f, arume (gl) m, frouma (gl) f, faísca (gl) f
• German: Kiefernnadel (de) f
• Hungarian: tűlevél (hu)
• Irish: spíonlach giúise m
• Italian: ago di pino m
• Japanese: 松葉 (まつば, matsuba)
• Navajo: ił
• Polish: igła sosnowa f
• Portuguese: caruma (pt) f
• Russian: хво́я (ru) f (xvója), (individual) хвои́нка (ru) f (xvoínka)
• Spanish: pinocha (es) f, pinaza (es) f (plural)